Adrian Marquez, LMHC, NCC, CCMHC, is a licensed clinician, qualified supervisor, and
A behavioral health leader whose professional work is shaped by an uncommon combination of
military service, clinical practice, program development, and counselor education. Before
entering the counseling profession, Adrian served 16 years in the United States Marine Corps,
including assignments as a Recon Marine, Force Reconnaissance team leader, and Marine
Raider.
During his military career, he completed extensive advanced special operations training,
including scout sniper, combatant diver, military free-fall, master breacher, advanced SERE-
related instruction, and the Joint Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Academy. He
participated in major combat and special operations deployments, including Operation Phantom
Fury and multiple deployments to Afghanistan. Combat-related injuries ultimately led to his
medical retirement and a Purple Heart.

Following that transition, Adrian pursued counseling out of both personal conviction and lived
experience with trauma recovery. While completing his graduate training, he also served in the
DoD Human Space Flight Support program, working with NASA and the Department of
Defense as the senior engineer over astronaut survival and personnel recovery operations.
After achieving licensure, he moved fully into the behavioral health field and has since served in
a range of clinical and executive roles, including therapist, program manager, executive director,
corporate director of military programming, director of behavioral health, and private practice
owner. His career has consistently centered on building and leading trauma-informed, ethically
grounded programs that serve complex populations with excellence and precision. Adrian is also a Doctoral Student completing his PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision

Adrian is the founder and CEO of The Sheepdog Program Corporation, a nonprofit dedicated to
serving veterans and first responders through innovative, mission-sensitive behavioral health
care. He also operates a private practice, CALM in the Storms, where he provides psychotherapy
and supervision services for Florida-based counselors. His clinical orientation is strongly
informed by Jungian and depth-oriented perspectives, and he integrates evidence-based and
emerging approaches, including EMDR, virtual reality exposure therapy, and biofeedback-based
meditation, and psychotropic-assisted counseling support. His broader scholarly and clinical
interests include trauma, moral injury, reintegration, spiritual meaning-making, psychotropic-
assisted behavioral health, and the ethical integration of experiences that clients often struggle to explain within conventional psychological language.

Across his work, Adrian brings a deep commitment to helping individuals and systems engage
suffering, transformation, identity, and meaning with honesty and courage. His perspective is
especially shaped by years of serving veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors, as well as by ongoing reflection on the clinical, existential, and spiritual dimensions of healing.